Morning After Questions

Posted: 09 Jan 2008 07:45 AM CST

Three questions after a stunning evening. Q: Did Hillary Clinton cry her way to victory last night? A: That certainly seems to be where the conventional wisdom is headed, but as Jay pointed out last...

The Dynamic That May Have Worked For Hillary

Posted: 09 Jan 2008 06:47 AM CST

Analysts are this morning busy poring over turnout totals, or tapes of last Saturday night's debate and Hillary's "emotional moment" in an effort to find the place where she turned it all around. But...

Huckabee Has Momentum

Posted: 09 Jan 2008 12:47 AM CST

Iowa was grand for former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, but New Hampshire was a bonanza. He cast his bread upon the waters there and though he finished a distant third, it was returned manifold. ...

'Change' For Our Children

Posted: 09 Jan 2008 12:30 AM CST

WASHINGTON -- The big lie of campaign 2008 -- so far -- is that the presidential candidates, Democratic and Republican, will take care of our children. Listening to these politicians, you might think...

Make or Break Time For Maliki

Posted: 09 Jan 2008 12:30 AM CST

WASHINGTON -- A new movement to oust Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is gathering force in Baghdad. And although the United States is counseling against this change of government, a senior U.S....

Policy Amnesty

Posted: 09 Jan 2008 12:30 AM CST

The next few weeks and months may be the most dangerous time for wise public policy circa 2009-2016. Unless someone else gets into the presidential race and wins, one of the current crop of...

Speedboat Bluff in the Persian Gulf

Posted: 09 Jan 2008 12:30 AM CST

Why would five Iranian speedboats bluff an attack on a U.S. Navy squadron? Start with a big fact: Under the mullah-led thieves' regime, Iran has become an explosive political mix of ethnic,...

Pain, Suffering and Capital Punishment

Posted: 09 Jan 2008 12:20 AM CST

Such is the state of modern society that the U.S. Supreme Court gets the job of deciding how much pain the victim of capital punishment feels -- never mind what kind of pain the victim's victims may...

Obama's Movement

Posted: 09 Jan 2008 12:00 AM CST

WASHINGTON -- Almost all the early predictions about this presidential race were badly, wildly and gloriously wrong. Republicans were supposed to return to a miniaturized version of Reaganism...

Writers Guild Another Strike Gone Too Far

Posted: 09 Jan 2008 12:00 AM CST

SAN DIEGO -- Some Americans turn to late-night television to escape the tension, conflict and political backbiting of the day. So what happens when tension, conflict and political backbiting come to...

That Obama Feeling

Posted: 09 Jan 2008 12:00 AM CST

Barack Obama is the tipping-point man, the meme of the moment, the miracle cure for that chronic American malady: feelin' bad about things. Obama may be "all that," as they say, but let's be...

Myths of '68

Posted: 09 Jan 2008 12:00 AM CST

This 40th anniversary of the turbulent year 1968 is already starting to spawn nostalgic accounts of that year. We can look for more during this year in articles, books, and TV specials, featuring...

The Clintons in Crisis

Posted: 09 Jan 2008 12:00 AM CST

Hell hath no fury like a Clinton spurned. Hillary's back-to-back defeats in Iowa and now New Hampshire have the famously disciplined politician in a tailspin. It's the media's fault. It's sexism's...

The Left's Ronald Reagan

Posted: 09 Jan 2008 12:00 AM CST

The irony about Barack Obama is that he's the man of Hillary Clinton's dreams. Watching the New Hampshire college students pour out to vote for Obama, I kept picturing the young Miss Rodham...

Live and Let Live, Says One Candidate

Posted: 09 Jan 2008 12:00 AM CST

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul opposes things like prostitution and drug use, but he says the federal government has no business trying to stop adults from engaging in them. Freedom of...

New Hampshire Primary Victory Speech

Posted: 08 Jan 2008 09:19 PM CST

My friends, I am past the age when I can claim the noun, "kid," no matter what adjective precedes it. But tonight we sure showed them what a comeback looks like. When the pundits declared us...

Panel Previews Race After New Hampshire

Posted: 08 Jan 2008 08:50 PM CST

(COMMERCIAL BREAK) JOHN MCCAIN, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We know how important New Hampshire is to our campaign. There's no sugarcoating that. It's straight talk that is absolutely...